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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa 
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BOND 1 November 2006 I know you don’t begrudge my tears on your garden grave as I don’t begrudge you Heaven. - Owl |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
This is poignant, touching love talk, dear Diana. Love, Margherita  |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Margherita. This is about my beloved, horse, Flicka who taught me the real meaning of love. - Owl |
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XGarapanX Senior Member
since 2008-06-19
Posts 1435Antarctica |
Ooh! This kicked me in the face. And for a horse. I can imagine your passion for your people. Engrossing poem. One eternal moment locked in stone, and resonating long past the reading. ·´~`·»Garapan«·´~`· |
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Richy Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 3050 |
How very loving Diana. I'm sure your Flicka was a true wonder. May your memories keep you, always. Rich |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you Garapan. So very easy to feel this for a horse, especially my darling Flicka. I was his for 20½ years and knew him for 2 years before that. He was the most adoring and adored horse I ever met, not just because I was his. He was 37½ when he went to Heaven. Thank you for understanding my bond with him and for your kind words. Richy, you are right, he was/is a true wonder. Yes, my memories will keep me always - and I love that turn of phrase of yours, it is very beautiful. Thank you. - Owl |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore |
i live in a city and the few times in which i got to ride a horse were exhilarating times indeed, where i could savour devil-may-care freedom brush against my cheeks. you must feel incredibly blessed to have such a long nurturing relationship. it's never easy to let go but hopefully, the memories help to heal |
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graeshine2006 Member
since 2008-06-03
Posts 368The Prairie Lands, USA |
Owl... This is beauty in a little package. I bet Flicka is waiting for you at Rainbow Bridge!  |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Kaile, when I selected the print version to copy your poem, Why Nepali Men Don't Smile to my new Kaile folder on my computer (I hope you don't mind) I noticed in the print version that your name is Heng Kaile. May I call you Heng? Until you tell me otherwise I am going to presume that I may do so. Heng, I am so glad you got to ride horses, even if it was only a few times. Yes, it is a wonderful experience. I had about 10 years of riding Flicka. I retired him about 10 years before he went to Heaven, but went to the stables every day and led him out walking every day and prepared his food and spent time with him. We used to have long conversations about all sorts of things - I even explained to him how the rotation of the Earth on its axis causes day and night and the revolution of the Earth around the sun causes the seasons. Whatever I said, he listened with the greatest concentration and talked back for example with his eyes and by moving his ears and nuzzling his face up against me. He was a great comfort when I was upset, but I tried not to tell him too much about my being upset with people as he loved everyone and I thought it may hurt his feelings in some way. Initially when he went to Heaven, I didn't know how to cope - I still don't very much - but I have realised that I was indeed very blessed to have been his for so long. I understand that you feel that I should let go. A lot of people have thought so, but I can't, nor do I want to. I need the communication with Flicka, and any pain that comes along with that, is worth it. People tell me that time heals, but it actually doesn't. In fact one of my poems is called Time Doesn't Heal. However, I am very grateful and blessed that he had a very long, very healthy and very happy life, and that his passing was gentle, with his head in my lap, so somehow I handle it. Before he went to Heaven, I didn't know or understand about death, but Flicka taught me, (amongst so many other things when he was alive) to understand about the loss of a loved one, and so I can empathise so much better when somebody loses a loved one. Often when things are really bad (and sometimes when they are not), I realise anew how blessed I was for Flicka living happily and in excellent health for 37½ years and for giving me 20½ of those years with him. Thank you Debby. I have heard of the beautiful concept of the Rainbow Bridge. However, I believe that my precious Flicka is far too busy in Heaven making everyone (animals and people, especially the newcomers) happy and at home and comfortable and gamboling with his friends in green pastures, to be waiting on the Rainbow Bridge, but that when I die, he will return to the Rainbow Bridge for me too, and oh, what a reunion that will be! - Owl |
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Greeneyes 
since 2000-09-09
Posts 9903In Your Poetic Mind |
sigh....understanding this....I had 3 horses growing up....many loving memories... ~~**~~ |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Lauren, and I really understand that sigh . . . the nostalgia, the longing, the happy memories. Thank you for understanding about Flicka. You would have adored him, and he, you. - Owl |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
You make its memories great, very poignant poem when we care about the words... thanks yann |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you Yann. It is wonderful to know that my darling horse, Flicka is known all over the world - South Africa, France, America, England, Turkey - to name just a few countries. He was so humble and loving. Thirty people fussing over him at any one time (not that there were ever so many at one time!) would be that much better than 29, and he would have made sure that nobody got left out. For example, when I was with other people at his stable door, he would nuzzle up to each in turn, and keep coming back to me as though to say, "Mommy don't be hurt that I love other people too" and of course I never was - I just loved the fact that people loved him and that he loved them. - Owl |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
It is easy to see that Flicka was very special, Owl. Ida |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Ida. He most certainly was. - Owl |
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